The Three Huntsmen
This composition was started a couple years ago or more. It was a hot day for Middleburg Fall races and a few artists and I were there painting in the shade overlooking the field. Challenged by the heat, I did my under painting in hot Indian yellow, quinacridone red and some ultramarine blue to turn the orange (yellow and red) to brown. At 24"x36", the portrait detail is quite small for my hand and brushes. After studying some of Alfred Munning's quick paintings, listening to Booth Malone and Rob Van Der Zee (guest workshop instructors summer 2015 AIM) I decided it was time to step out of my comfort zone and do some experimenting. I picked a palette of Indian yellow, green gold, phthalo turquoise and quinacridone magenta and titanium zinc white, a fairly normal palette for me but a very new spectrum of color. Covering the transparent drawing in opaque allowed me to fix some of the drawing issues I had left. Once the soft peach sky started to be painted in, the heat of the day flowed into the rest of the composition. Only a few dark lines show through from the under painting; normally all my drawing shows. These lines intensified the heat to me; a complete surprise. The figures soften into the entire landscape and handle my portrait problem effectively. If you know the way a person sits on a horse, you know who they are and that is all that is needed in this composition. If you know how a huntsman allows the reins down for a horse to graze, you know how those reins are being held on the middle horse. Very refreshing for me!
Hashes: Tally Ho Art Show, Hunt Country Impressions Byrne Gallery,
Tally Ho Art Show
Afternoon Ride
Hunt Landscape, V
Friesians, four in hand
Christmas Hound
Hunting Home
Flying Hunt Coat Field Hunter Championships
Tally Ho Holiday Art Show at Long Branch Historic House and Farm
Huntsman from the Forrest Shadows
Piedmont Foxhounds at Oakley, 2009
Zohar Ben Dov on a grey hunter with Orange County Hounds
Middleburg Christmas Parade Huntsman
Summer Pleasures, Hound Walk
OCH Cubbing with Charlie Matheson, I
OCH Cubbing with Charlie Matheson II
Cubbing Field Hunters, Field Hunter Championships
BRH Closing Meet with Karen Ewbank
OCH Happy Hunting with Malcolm Matheson
Patience, a portrait of Jt MFH Penny Denegre and her champion sidesaddle mare Garnet
OCH Hunting on foot with Reg Spreadborough
Working Forward, a huntsman on the ridge
Full Cry Hounds
Jingles, a beagle portrait
Golden Field Hunter
The Field Hunter, I
The Tantivy Coach
Billy BC Douglas, a portrait
Blue Ridge Hunt Thanksgiving Meet with Graham Buston
Gone to Ground, OCH Thanksgiving Day
Hunt Country Impressions Byrne Gallery
Christmas Hound
Upperville Family Class, I
Piedmont Foxhounds at Oakley, 2009
Summer Pleasures, Hound Walk
Cubbing Field Hunters, Field Hunter Championships
Working Forward, a huntsman on the ridge
Full Cry Hounds
The Field Hunter, I
Blue Ridge Hunt Thanksgiving Meet with Graham Buston
Summer Sunrise with Snickersville Hounds
Gone to Ground, OCH Thanksgiving Day
Summer Afternoon Carriage Drive
National Sporting Library Polo, I
Hunt Country Impressions Solo Artist Exhibition at Byrne Gallery
Sidesaddle in Purple and Green
Blue Ridge Hunt Races, II
Friesian Mare in the Stables
Champion hunter mare portrait of Rejoice and her colt Quiver
The Sun Bathers, dressage horses resting in water and light
First Field Orange Country Hounds
Cloverlone Mare Field Sunset
Hunting Aside, a portrait of Devon Z
Holsteiner Stallion Portrait, R-Flash-Gordon
Nancy Dillon hunting with Piedmont Fox Hounds, Liz Callar reference photo
Portrait of a Foxhunter in Piedmont Cubbing Season reference photo by Liz Callar
Pony Home the Fieldhunter
Showbiz, a portrait of a grand Dutch KWPN mare by Jazz
Portrait of a Conformation Hunter
The Sun Bathers, II
The Byrne Gallery Artist Reception, Hunt Country Impressions
Hunt Country Impressions Gallery Talk with Gail Guirreri-Maslyk, The Byrne Gallery
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